Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oriente citizens complain that the rich income earned by Oriente exports (sugar, coffee) goes largely for projects in Havana. Such inequity traditionally spurs Oriente men to rebellion; both of Cuba's wars for independence against Spain began in Oriente, and the first stanza of the Cuban national anthem honors revolutionaries of the Oriente town of Bayamo...
Beyond the mountains, Castro's sabotage campaign damaged stored sugar, a railway warehouse, a railroad line. Bombs exploded nightly in Havana. The center of civil resistance was Santiago, where Castro has become a romantic hero. There, 26 women were arrested for marching through the streets with a Cuban flag and posters protesting the "killing of our children," and ordering Batista's police chief...
...heavily guarded palace in Havana, Batista looked tired but confident. Still backed by the army, he could count on a good sugar crop to keep the island's economy on an even keel. But as long as Castro remained free to fight and sabotage, Batista's regime would obviously be in danger...
...gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar is So Refined with the rubbery beat and buttery sound of a good sax section. Then First Tenor Clark Burroughs spreads his arms wide and throws his silver-hued voice weaving and wailing high over the others, eventually slides back down to join in a typically altered Hi-Lo ending...
Life Strength. Bearing a Greek first name ("life strength"), Behn came out of the Virgin Islands, son of a Danish father and French mother, began in 1898 as a $3-a-week bank clerk in New York. With his brother Hernand he ran a small sugar brokerage house in Puerto Rico, in 1914 launched his real career by buying a tiny telephone company. When Sosthenes returned from World War I as a U.S. lieutenant colonel (with a Distinguished Service Medal), the brothers Behn issued 50,000 shares of common stock at $68.50 a share, founded...